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1946006949London Uk: George Allen And Unwin 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Dustjacket. 240 Pp. Orange Cloth With Black Lettering On Spine. This Collection Includes The Novel To-Morrow's Yesterday And Twenty Short Stories With First Printings Of Ten Of The Stories. A Near Fine Book In A Bright Vg Dustjacket With Some Wear And Minute Losses At Spine Ends And Corners A Few Almost Invisible 1/8" Edge Tears Not Price-Clipped 9S6d And With No Significant Tears Or Chips. <br/> <br/> George Allen And Unwin hardcover
1964007421Praha Prague: Klub Ctenaru / Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury a Umeni 1964. First Edition . Red Cloth. Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. 255 Pp. Red Cloth Stamped In Black. Modernist Czech Design Of Covers And Dj. Nicely Inscribed To The Author's American Agent Forrest Ackerman And His Wife Wendy Who Translated Nesvadba In American Editions And Dated 1970. Publisher's Booklet Laid In Loosely. Fine In Near Fine Dj. <br/> <br/> Klub Ctenaru / Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury a Umeni hardcover
1974032132New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine DJ. Black Cloth Red Lettering And Design. First Printing. Near Fine In Near Fine Dj Priced $5.95 Slight Rubbing At Corners 1/8" X 1/4" Rough Area/Abrasion At Top Of Front Flap Fold Not Chipped Or Torn Short Corner Crease At Bottom Of Front Flap. . Signed By Author On Title Page Signed For Me In Person. <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1950020956Circa 1945/1955: Forrest Ackerman Agency 1950. Original Typescript . Loose Sheets. Very Good. 14 pp. "about 3500 words". Typescript with hand corrections. Original story about a dictator a scientist and a time machine in which the dictatator is unaware that time changes only INSIDE the time machine. Harry Warner was a long-time SF fan who published 11 stories and several books particularly "All Our Yesterdays" a history of early SF fandom and "A Wealth of Fable" covering the 1950's which won the Hugo Award in 1993 for Best Related Book. Label of the Forrest Ackerman Agency. <br/> <br/> Forrest Ackerman Agency unknown
1904000740London: Macmillan & Company 1904. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Vii 317 2 Pp Catalog Not Numbered 61 Pp Catalog Dated 20.7.4. First Edition First Issue. With Ads Dated 20.7.04 Green Cloth Gilt And Stamped In Blind T.E.G. Front Panel Including Gilt Bright And Clean But Spine A Little Faded And Worn At Ends "Macmillan" Is Difficult To Read Gilt Title And Author's Name Are Weak But Clear Some Wear At Corners A Few Points Beginning To Fray At Top/Bottom Of Spine 1/8" Split At Top Of Spine. Small Morocco Bookstore Label Of R. L. Goulden Canterbury On Front Pastedown <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Company hardcover
1933016045London 1933: Burns Oates & Washbourne 1933. First Edition . Paper Boards. Fair. 70 Pp. Orange Boards Stamped In Green. Inscribed By The Author And Dated In The Year Of Issue "After A Lovely Summer.". Printed Quote On Cover From Lord Baden-Powell: "Any Youngsters Who Are Sensible And Not Little Gumpts Will Read This Book With Real Enjoyment." Paper Backstrip Worn Away Front And Rear Cover Very Clean And Bright And With Little To No Wear But Binding Repaired Internally With Cellotape At Two Margins With One Illustration Taped In Before The Title As A Frontispiece. Only A Few Copies In Worldcat. Dorothy Field Dudley Short Was Active As A British Writer Reviewer And Editor Circa 1922-1960. This Example From Her Granddaughter's Library.Very Scarce One Of The Burns Oates' Nature And Science Series For Children. The Author Notes In Her Personal Papers That "1933. Burns Gates Bombed And Also Their Printing Works At Plymouth. Lost Half The Edition". <br/> <br/> Burns Oates & Washbourne hardcover
1973005084Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1973 First printing of the stated first edition blue cloth boards with gilt-lettered spine 206pp. Brunner's personal edited copy with his personalized bookplate on the front pastedown and with several penciled editorial corrections by Brunner throughout especially making note of repetitive words scarce thus. Book with slight lean to upper spine faint toning to page margins and minor rubbing to edge of boards else in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine and cover margins moderate wear/creasing to spine ends and corners light rubbing else fine. Doubleday & Company hardcover
20129308New York: Tor Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 0765316994 . <br>Red clothe with black lettering 317 pp. Corners bumped slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart slight edge wear. An attractive copy signed by author on title page. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 317 pages; <P>Hugo winner for best novel in 2013 and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. <br>"Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting and Andrew is even more thrilled to be assigned to the ship's xenobiology laboratory with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. <p>Life couldn't be better.until Andrew begins to realize that 1 every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces 2 the ship's captain its chief science officer and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations and 3 sadly at least one low=ranked crew member is invariably killed. <p>Unsurprisingly the savvier members belowdecks avoid Away Missions at all costs. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues' understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is.and offers them a crazy high-risk chance to save their own lives." ; Signed by Author . Tor Books hardcover
1935022900London: Arthur Barker Limited 1935. Octavo pp viii 301 i very slight foxing pages 38/39 are marked by the use of an unsuitable silver bookmark otherwise extremely clean internally grey cloth rather age-toned on the spine otherwise very good the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but it is a little age-toned more son on the rear cover and darker still on the spine. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Arthur Barker Limited Hardcover
190956353Arthur H. Stockwell London 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo <7 3/4". 159 pp. Front hinge cracked. Spine cocked and faded. Foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges browned foxed and marked. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Knick to top edge of front board. An anti-feminist Satire whose protagonist awakes in Near Future 1930 where the disastrous consequences of allowing female suffrage are all too evident; eventually the men revolt and the women having learned their lesson return happily to their domestic duties. Though its circulation was limited the publisher Arthur H Stockwell was a vanity press the tale aroused mild attention. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Contains frontispiece. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Britain/UK; Women & Feminism. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56353. . Arthur H. Stockwell hardcover
2017533654New York: Marvel 2017. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor shelf and edgewear to jacket no tears. Bump to rear upper leading corner affecting both jacket and board. Pages 1-3 have a small spot of sticker residue to upper margins does not impede text or illustrations. Spine tight illustrations clear and unmarked and binding sound. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. Marvel Hardcover
2014042424East Yorkshire England: PS Artbooks Ltd. / PS Publishing 2014. First U.K. Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Briefer Dick. 224pp. Illustrated throughout with the comic-book artwork of Dick Briefer. Colour illustrated endpapers. Colour illustrated boards are clean and without wear. Binding square and sound. Small quarto. Colour illustrated slipcase is clean and without wear. Foreword by Donald F. Glut. Frankenstein: The classic series written and drawn by Dick Briefer originally published in magazine form by Crestwood Publications also known as Feature Publications. <br/> <br/> PS Artbooks Ltd. / PS Publishing hardcover
202019897New York NY USA: Harper Teen 2020. Fine/Fine. First Edition First Printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS JAIDA JONES AND DANI BENNETT without dedication or inscription on front endpaper. A fantasy novel. TOGETHER WITH A SEPARATE CARD ILLUSTRATION ALL HOUSED IN A PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL FABRIC BAG. Red glitter page edges. Light creasing to fore-edge of card illustation; else a fine copy in a fine d/w of a SCARCE first edition first printing SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. Signed by Both Authors Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett. First Edition First Printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Harper Teen Hardcover
197922110061A & W Visual Library New York 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Illustrator: Jim Burns. Hardcover. PUBLISHING DETAILS: A & W Visual Library New York 1979. First Edition. This is the first USA edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are lightly browned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Planet story is an ebullient space opera in which the world of Strabismus is invaded by an immense automatic track laying robot aliens heros and love interest. Illustrator: Jim Burns. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0891041362. ISBN/EAN: 9780891041368. Inventory No: 22110061. 9780891041368 A & W Visual Library hardcover
1979003050Great Britain: Paper Tiger 1979. Book. Illus. by Froud Brian. Fine. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Signed by Authors. First English Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR Alexander Theroux on the copyright page. First English Edition precedes the Harper &Row U.S. edition. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket small chip bottom edge front wrapper at spine gutter. Wonderful Brian Froud illustrations. Paper Tiger Hardcover
1970003917London: Gollancz 1970 near fine in same DW price clipped small split at head of spine lamination cracked along top fore edge fold slight lean to spine clean throughout closed top edge lightly dust soiled nice copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6 - 7 tall. Gollancz hardcover
1997183311Akron Ohio: Tor Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0312859066 . <br>Corners slightly bumped and slight edge wear. ; <br>Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket protected in new Brodart. Jacket art by Romas Jacket design by Carol Russo Designs. Books 1 & 2 are First Editions Book 3 is Second Edition. ISBN's: Book 1 0-312-85906-6 Book 2 0-312-86447-7 Book 3 0-312-86791-3. Email for additional information. ; The Lon Tobyn Chronicle; Jacket Art; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; <P>The Lon Tobyn Chronicle is a three-volume epic fantasy series and is David Coe's first fantasy series. <br>"Tobyn-Ser is a land blessed with magic which is utilized by the Children of Amarid as shepherds of the land and people. The Children are those gifted to be able to bond with avian familiars and are sworn to use their power for the benefit of Tobyn-Ser. <P>Lon-Ser is the neighboring land which has renounced magic in favor of technology. Tobyn-Ser is beset by terrifying attacks against their people and villages and Jaryd a young talented mage sets forth upon an epic journey to discover who is behind these attacks. The Children of Amarid eventually find that Lon-Ser is responsible but infighting threatens civil war. <P>Melyar a street-smart woman from the quads has come to rule Lon-Ser. She wants peace between the two lands but Lon-Ser too is on the verge of a civil war. <P>Can Jaryd and Melyar find a way to forge a lasting peace in and between their lands " ; Signed by Author . Tor Books hardcover
20009242New York: Baen Books. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671578499 . <br>Blue cloth over blue boards gold lettering. Corners a bit worn slight edge wear and rubbing. Front board cracked at title page exposing webbing. Jacket in new Brodart a little edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy signed by author on title page. ; <br>First book in the popular and ever-expanding 1632 shared universe. ; 1632; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 504 pages; <p>"The Ultimate Y2K Glitch . <br>"In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants death was a mercy. <br> "2000 - Things are going OK in Grantville West Virginia. The mines are working the buck are plentiful it's deer season and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America which Mike leads is having a good time. <br>"Then Everything Changed . <br>"When the dust settles Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road is cut as with a sword. On the other side a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door his wife and daughter lying screaming in much at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot . <br>"At that moment Freedom and Justice American style are introduced to the middle of the Thiry Years War. "; Signed by Author . Baen Books hardcover
2001028983New York: TOR / A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2001. INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR with his full name directly on the title page. NOTE TO COLLECTORS: unlike this one other copies signed on a "tipped-in page" or a bookplate were never personally handled by Goodkind. Laid in this copy is a Terry Goodkind bookmark -- full color in perfect condition. The book is in Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket has only a bit of mild shelfwear on its rear panel. NO chips tears or fading. NOT price clipped $29.95. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked - apparently seldom if ever read. Illustrated with a double page map drawn by the author. 2001. First printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row 0987654321 on the copyright page. Bound in the original black boards stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the publisher: "Entering the world of New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind we find ourselves gripped by fear held spellbound by suspense and most of all aching to be there beside people who capture our hearts. Now in his latest and most lavish adventure yet a young woman's struggle for salvation from inner demons and an ancience injustice takes on terrifying dimensions. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else the torment is about to begin. with winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan must venture deep into a strange and desolate land. Their quest turns to terror when they find themselves the helpless prey of a tireless hunter. Meanwhile Jennsen finds herself drawn into the center of a violent struggle for conquest and revenge. Worse yet she finds her will seized by forces more abhorrent than anything she ever envisioned. Only then does she come to realize that the voices were real. Staggered by loss and increasingly isolated Richard and Kahlan must stop the relentless unearthly threat which has come out of the darkest night of the human soul. To do so Richard will be called upon to face the demons stalking among the Pillars of Creation. Discover breathtaking adventure and true nobility of spirit. Find out why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Parkinson Keith jacket art. 8vo. 559pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. TOR / A Tom Doherty Associates Book Hardcover
1992026891Trumbull Connecticut: The Greenwich Workshop Press 1992. BRAND NEW in PERFECT CONDITION still in the original packaging. This full color UNFRAMED fine art print is pencil signed and numbered by the artist James Gurney. SEE PHOTOS. It is one of an edition limited to 3500. The print was originally issued with the slipcased Deluxe Leatherbound Edition of the book DINOTOPIA A LAND APART FROM TIME however offered here is the print only NO book. Paper size: 19" wide x 16.75" inches tall. Image size: 16" wide x 13.25" inches tall. Includes a brief Gurney biography the print's original documentation SEE PHOTOS and care instructions. To ensure everything arrives in perfect condition it will be shipped to you in the original sturdy packaging which is oversize 32.5" by 23." This large heavy package may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage charged at our cost depending on destination. Signed by James Gurney. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine art print on paper. New. Illus. by Gurney James. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Greenwich Workshop Press Paperback
1983018449Metuchen New Jersey & London: The Scarecrow Press Inc. 1983. Fine condition. Bright square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies No. 59. Index. Bound in the original canary yellow cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket as issued. 8vo. xxvi 229pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Hardcover
1857006183Paris: Librairie des Publications Illustrées 1857. Hardcover. Very Good -. Doré Gustave. Nouvelle Édition revue sur les meilleurs textes et particulièrement sur les travaux de J. Le Duchat et de S. L'Aulnaye; Éclaircie quant à l'Orthographie et à la ponctuation et accompagnée de notes succinctes et d'un glossaire par Louis Barré; illustrations par Gustave Doré." 2 339 3 p. frontispiece and 14 leaves of plates: in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Plain red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. All page edges speckled red. Text is in columns. Includes a glossary. Bookdealer's label on back fixed endpaper of Joseph McDonough Co. Albany N.Y. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; cover lightly soiled; scattered foxing; otherwise clean and tight. Librairie des Publications Illustrées hardcover
198219110279Penguin Australia 1982. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 143 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin Australia 1982. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Future Began 80000 Years Ago --- The thrilling science fantasy adventure which re-creates through the mists of time our unthinkable past. Most of the tribe are dead or dying after the battle. But worse they have been robbed of their most scared possession - FIRE! So three young warriors must brave a world of untamed savagery during their search for survival itself in Quest for Fire. Now an extraordinary 20th Century-Fox motion picture filmed on three continents for which Desmond Morris and Anthony Burgess created new forms of primitive gesture and language. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0140064346. ISBN/EAN: 9780140064346. Inventory No: 19110279. 9780140064346 Penguin paperback
1972622392London: Millington Books Ltd 1972. First edition hard cover with a plastic-coated unclipped dust jacket all in very good condition. Light shelf and handling wear including light discolouration to pageblock. Within pages are tightly bound content unmarked. CN. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Emshwiller Ed. Millington Books Ltd Hardcover
200484London Titan Books 2004. 1st edition in this format 1st impression with full print number from 1 to 10. Facsimile of the very first Dan Dare story which was renamed Voyage to Venus by Titan Books and reprinted in two volumes. This first part was reprinted from the Eagle Number 1 14th of April 1950 to Number 40 12th of January 1951. Includes a Who's who in Dan Dare and an article about the genesis of Dan Dare illustrated with rarely seen artwork and merchandise. Now scarce. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper. Titan Books. hardcover
